Sergey Bezrukov

Biography

Sergey Bezrukov is the son of Vitali Bezrukov, who is also an actor. He graduated from Moscow Art Theatre and made his cinema debut in Nocturne for Drum and Motorcycle. Since 1994 he has played a wide range of characters, such as Ivan Brilling in Azazel, Irakliy in The Irony of Fate 2, Kappel in Admiral, Sumarokov in High Security Vacation, and Rzhevskiy in The Ballad of Uhlans. His notable roles in Russian miniseries include starring as Sasha Belov in Brigada, Yeshua Ha-Nozri in The Master and Margarita, Sergei Yesenin in Yesenin and Vladimir Vysotsky in Vysotsky. Thank You For Being Alive. He voiced the title character of Prince Vladimir animated film and several characters in the Kukly series. He is also known for his theatre role of Chichikov in Dead Souls (which won the Moskovskij Komsomolets' award). In 2006, he portrayed Alexander Pushkin, revered as the Russian language's greatest poet, in Pushkin: The Last Duel. According to the survey of ROMIR Monitoring, in Russia he was called the favourite actor of 2005.

In March 2014 he signed a letter in support of the position of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on Russia's military intervention in Ukraine.

Personal life

From 2000 to 2015 he was married to actress Irina Bezrukova (to marry Bezrukov she broke up with actor Igor Livanov, they became officially married when Sergei was acting in the TV series Brigada). In 2015 the couple separated.

Sergei Bezrukov married director and screenwriter Anna Matison on March 11, 2016. On July 4, 2016 they had a daughter, Maria.

At the end of 2013, the media, citing Bezrukov's father, reported that Sergei has young children: daughter Alexandra and son Ivan; their mother was identified as a St. Petersburg actress by the name of Kristina Smirnova (born 1983 in Latvia).